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by vladms 9mo ago
> In Europe it is hostility mostly all the way, from banks to regulators to governments, and so on I have various experience with opening businesses and my impression is that the quality of service is the same as for personal matters, no
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by vladms 9mo ago
It proves or disproves as much as the op which said: > MacBooks tend to last a long time. I used my 2012 Macbook Air for 7-8 years easily. It's still working today. There are multiple things that are valuable, without that being a p
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by vladms 9mo ago
Who does it though? I feel that many people that gamble are the ones that feel "they know better" and they don't see any better way to use their money. Having a part of the population with those attributes seems the root caus
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by vladms 9mo ago
Can't say about Framework, but between a Macbook and a Dell, that both got a glass of water on them, the Macbook was completely unusable, while the Dell still works (except issues with GPU) 5 years after the incident, after only one da
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by vladms 9mo ago
True for videos, but not true for any type of "text claim", which were already plenty 10 years ago and they were already hard to fight (think: misquoting people, strangely referring to science article, dubiously interpreting facts
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by vladms 9mo ago
> We raised a decent amount of money from YC and other VCs, and despite that, the thing that helped us most for distribution When one does not raise money you get questions like "how do we know you will be here in 6 months, how are
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by vladms 9mo ago
> The article talks about how they’re doing better now, but it’s filled with so many admissions that they think a full-time job would have been a better path in general that it’s hard to unsee it. My personal experiences taught me that t
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by vladms 9mo ago
I would draw a line at user customized wall of content. All content on sites should be organized in a similar way for everybody (by date, by category, etc.). I think this would reduce a lot the problems that we see currently. If you want to
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by vladms 9mo ago
Interesting, but one assumption for "would be massively amplified" is that we are more connected. It seems that people are (at least feeling) more lonely (ref: https://www.gse.harvard.edu/ideas/usable-knowledg
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by vladms 9mo ago
Do you have any data to back that "it is more socially acceptable to lie"? I looked a bit and could not find anything either way. The impression can be a bias of growing up. Adults will generally teach and insist that children tel
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by vladms 9mo ago
People that trust something without understanding at least the principles can cause quite some issues. One of the issues that I think affects these people is that the scientific process can not guarantee that something is "correct&quot
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by vladms 9mo ago
Many protocols (even open) are complex, and partially undocumented. It would be nice to have both (open source and open protocol), but I kind of agree that if we should push for one, an open (decently explained) standard will probably be ea
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by vladms 9mo ago
Renting for me generally sounds like a bad deal. On the same period the stock grew even more (ex: S&P x4.5 from 2000). So, if you want to say that if you lived 30 years ago in Munich AND did not save anything you would have lived better
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by vladms 9mo ago
I was thinking (theoretically) we should strive for a more efficient system that could include more people. There are plenty of simpler and less efficient to achieve the same goal. For example I have for example a list of restaurants that I
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by vladms 9mo ago
I learnt Basic, C++ in that order because at the time there were the only options (Basic because of a computer like Sinclair that only had basic, C++ because there was the only thing offered as a course at a computer club around). Programmi
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by vladms 9mo ago
While I agree that the world would be better without ads in their current form, we should think why are ads required and what are the benefits. The main issue is how you discover a new product. The main benefit to society is/could be f
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by vladms 10mo ago
I doubt there is any other "optimal" approach, but do say what you would propose. There will always be indirect interference anyhow (think social networks, books, press, people talking, tariffs, visas, etc.), so there is some poss
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by vladms 10mo ago
Definitely not, but the furthest away the ones profiting from something are, the worse it can get. It is definitely not a guarantee that a local enriching elite will at some point lead to something better, but most examples that come to min
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by vladms 10mo ago
For gaming macOS does not seem a great choice. I have friends with macOS and, at least on Steam, there are very few games running on that platform. Additionally when I was using macOS for work, I had also some unexpected things if I wanted
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by vladms 10mo ago
I am using Arch and all the games I played on Steam (at least 20, not the ones mentioned above) worked perfectly. One thing that I do though is get most games at least one year after release, when probably many issues are fixed. I had tons
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by vladms 10mo ago
> Baldur's Gate 3 Linux build is a slideshow on Nvidia cards I played Baldur's Gate 3 on Linux on a GeForce GTX 1060 (which is almost 10 years old!) without a fan (I found later that it was broken) and I generally did not have
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by vladms 10mo ago
You mention the "right distro" but you did not mention what have you tried or with what you had problems with. From my experience, some examples: for gentoo you are much more than a janitor - you must be everything all the time; f
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by vladms 10mo ago
Maybe for this case Batman would be a better solution. Hell would not prevent the damage being done on the short term.
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by vladms 10mo ago
While I probably prefer a society that is more "for the many", I can't exclude the possibility that some people have different preferences and would not want to impose my opinion. Considering this, everybody might have to mak
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by vladms 10mo ago
Are they though? At least for AI/software the last 30 years were fantastic to have universal access to means of production (compilers, tools, operating systems, models, you name it). I am more worried about the capability of people to
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by vladms 10mo ago
The list is a bit overkill for the normal person. I would suggest just: - Have a local backup (simple giving the storage prices) - Pay for one email provider (less chance to ignore you) - For important services (bank, etc.) always register
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by vladms 10mo ago
The system works as long there is user trust in the system. It is sad and annoying when something like this happens, but occasionally the best thing you can do is tell your story and never use a service again. I find there are still reasona
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by vladms 10mo ago
Depends though what you mean by "do not use Google". Having an Android phone with a Google account logged in will not affect you much. If they would block one account you just create another. Having all your emails on Gmail and us
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by vladms 10mo ago
We do have resources inefficiently allocated (too much accumulation towards one end of the scale), but "shifting" those to the rest will have its challenges, people are complex and sometimes unreasonable (for example: there is hou
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by vladms 10mo ago
Worded like that does not sound very convincing. A lot of things "can cause" the things mentioned (overwork, bad weather, etc.). Maybe the risk is high, but clearer numbers would help. There are countries were smoking marijuana is

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